For my masters I'm trying to create a indoor position system (IPS) for the navigation of a robot.
At this point in time, i'm just researching the all of the options. Ideally I want a non-direct line of sight system.
I've breifly looked at Bluetooth, RF, and Magnetic Fields. If anyone could please either point me in the direction to research these field further or please offer some other methods for IPS that I could look into.
The rough idea, is to have a room 10m x 10m. In two corners of the room have some sort of beacon. The robot should be able to identify each beacon, and using some method work out the distance from it to each beacon, thus calculating its x,y location in the room via trig.
The problem is the beacon. We need something that can talk to the robot, with out interferance from other devices or physical objects. Secondly, the method in with the distance is calculated must try and be accurate to aleast 10cm to 20cm.
I want to advoid signal strength methods, and focus on time of arrvial methods.
Can someone please offer some advice, options or point me in the right direction.
Cheers
K
At this point in time, i'm just researching the all of the options. Ideally I want a non-direct line of sight system.
I've breifly looked at Bluetooth, RF, and Magnetic Fields. If anyone could please either point me in the direction to research these field further or please offer some other methods for IPS that I could look into.
The rough idea, is to have a room 10m x 10m. In two corners of the room have some sort of beacon. The robot should be able to identify each beacon, and using some method work out the distance from it to each beacon, thus calculating its x,y location in the room via trig.
The problem is the beacon. We need something that can talk to the robot, with out interferance from other devices or physical objects. Secondly, the method in with the distance is calculated must try and be accurate to aleast 10cm to 20cm.
I want to advoid signal strength methods, and focus on time of arrvial methods.
Can someone please offer some advice, options or point me in the right direction.
Cheers
K